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I can completely believe that whatever damage is being done to children by screens does not show up on an MRI scan. Having never even seen one in person, I have

I can completely believe that whatever damage is being done to children by screens does not show up on an MRI scan. Having never even seen one in person, I have no assumptions about what that would look like, if the damage even manifested physically. What is plainly obvious and would take much more than a self-reported survey to disabuse me of, is the idea that excessive electronic usage screws up kids' brains, making them highly prone to anti-social behavior and likely some form of screentime addiction.

vidarh 3y ago
Why is it "plainly obvious"? You criticize a self reported study, but offer up a self reported second hand anecdotal claim as the only alternative, without even stopping for a moment to consider other potential reasons, such as e.g. whether the causal link may go the other direction, or whether kids who get to have more screen time have less involved parents. I don't know whether this study is right. What I do know is that my observation of the people who insist it is not in this thread suggests I can't trust their reasoning about what they claim to have observed, because it fairly consistently involves illogical leaps and unsuported assumptions of causality.